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Quickstart commands for setting up PHP 8.3 with Nginx on Ubuntu Server 22.04

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Quickstart commands for setting up PHP 8.3 with Nginx on Ubuntu Server 22.04

Introduction

So I'm setting up another server and I thought I should write down the steps for the next time i do so in order to have a convenient document with everything. So in this post is a super to the point list of commands to get a server up and running with PHP 8.3 and Nginx on ubuntu server 22.04.

This guide assumes that you are familiar with linux and the command line, and that you have an actual idea of what you are doing. This won't teach you why things are done the way they are, its just a handy reference of the commands you need to run to setup the requirements for the latest php version.

There is no installation guide for MySQL here as I'm going to use SQLite for this.

Install commands 

sudo apt update sudo apt install nginx # Optional, setup firewall sudo ufw app list sudo ufw allow 'Nginx HTTP' sudo ufw allow 'Nginx HTTPS' sudo ufw status # Optional, print ip address ip addr show hostname -I curl -4 icanhazip.com apt-get install ca-certificates apt-transport-https software-properties-common sudo apt-get install ca-certificates apt-transport-https software-properties-common sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install php8.3 # Optional, verify php version php8.3 --version sudo apt install php8.3-fpm # Optional, verify php process is running systemctl status php8.3-fpm # Optional install common php extensions (Tailored for Laravel) sudo apt install openssl php8.3-bcmath php8.3-curl php8.3-mbstring php8.3-mysql php8.3-tokenizer php8.3-xml php8.3-zip php8.3-sqlite3
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Server config (optional) 

sudo mkdir /var/www/welcome sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/welcome sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/welcome # Paste the config below
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server { listen 80; server_name welcome www.welcome; root /var/www/welcome; index index.html index.htm index.php; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ = 404; } location ~ \.php$ { include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf; fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.3-fpm.sock; } location ~ /\.ht { deny all; } }
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sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/welcome /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ sudo unlink /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default sudo nginx -t sudo systemctl reload nginx # Optional, create info file to verify php is working echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > /var/www/welcome/index.php curl http://localhost/ # Later you probably want to remove the info file sudo rm /var/www/welcome/index.php
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SSL (optional) 

sudo openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/ssl/private/nginx-selfsigned.key -out /etc/ssl/certs/nginx-selfsigned.crt sudo nano /etc/nginx/snippets/self-signed.conf # Paste the following two lines but with the hash sign removed # ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/certs/nginx-selfsigned.crt; # ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/nginx-selfsigned.key; sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/welcome # Paste the following two lines but with the hash sign removed # listen 443 ssl; # include snippets/self-signed.conf; sudo nginx -t sudo systemctl restart nginx
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Conclusion

And that's it, you should now have a working server with PHP 8.3 and Nginx.

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